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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:21:00 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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To: Adrian Marsh <marsh AT lucent DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Diff and grep problems
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According to Adrian Marsh on 8/25/2005 3:52 AM:
> I've trying to compare two files using diff from a .bat file :
> 
> diff -iX scripts/%2.ignorelist "%difffile1%" "%difffile2%"
> 
...
> 
> So I wanted to exclude the ntp line and I put it in the ignorelist.

This is not cygwin specific.  Read up on 'info diff' - the -X option is a
file listing patterns of FILENAMES to ignore when diffing directories, not
LINES to ignore within file pairs being diffed.  Try -I instead.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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